Aftermath

"This is my home, I'm not leaving. My dad's engine, you can't take it with you either."

The young man's words made Tom's opening remarks pale, leaving him somewhat at a loss.

He is not good at persuading people, especially when it comes to dealing with a child, let alone... this is already someone else's thing. Taking something away from a child's hand actually puts a psychological burden on Tom.

Yuan Feipeng noticed Tom's embarrassment and smiled. He limped over and crouched down, saying softly, "What's your name?"

"Hmph," the boy turned his head and ignored it, then looked at the gray dog that had lost its breath, tears streaming down his face.

"Don't cry, Xiaojie." Yuan Feipeng patted his shoulder, but the young man broke free, but he didn't give up. He continued to pat, "Xiaojie, the world has changed. Xiaohui has left, and we will go to heaven together. But you still have to live, you know? Otherwise, Xiaohui's sacrifice will be in vain."

The young man immediately burst into tears and said, "I'm going to heaven, I'm going to find Xiao Hui, and there's also Dad. I'm going to heaven."

"Don't you want revenge anymore? For your dad, mom... little gray."

"Little Grey..." The boy wiped away his tears and said, "The black dog ate my dad and killed my little Grey... I want to kill it, kill it." He picked up his iron rod and rushed to the head of the dead black dog, smashing it desperately, shouting hysterically, "Kill you, kill you."

Tom frowned and wanted to speak out to dissuade, but Yuan Feipeng made a booing gesture with his index finger. Tom understood, this is to let the boy vent his anger.

The boy was still beating incessantly, but Zhao Xin walked back and reported that the first car was in good condition, while the third truck had some problems.

Yuan Feipeng watched as the young man's fighting strength grew weaker and weaker before walking over. "Xiao Jie, come with me," he said, leading him to the side and pointing to the bodies of vultures and pheasants. "Do you see them?"

These two people were killed by mooncakes using heavy machine guns, and their bodies were torn apart by large caliber bullets, resulting in an unsightly death. The boy's face turned pale with fear and he vomited profusely.

"Did you see that? He's our companion, all from the factory you hate. We've brought in ten people in total, but unlike you, we have a majestic and loyal dog protecting us, so we're still four of us. Now that your dog's gone, are you sure you can live as carefree as before?"

The young man hesitated for a moment, then stubbornly turned his head and endured another wave of vomiting: "Hmph, I have superpowers to turn iron blocks into various weapons, just like... just like him..." He pointed to Tom, who was wearing this broken Jade Rabbit armor, "I will definitely make the best Freedom Gundam armor and kill all these cannibalistic monsters!"

Yuan Feipeng gave Tom a wink, gesturing for his help. Tom thought for a moment and followed the boy's words, saying, "That's a great idea, but you haven't come up with it. You can't even put armor on your dog, I guess you don't have enough green crystals. And it's useless for you to do it now because the iron armor is too heavy and you can't move when you put it on, right?"

The young man's face twirled in color, "I..."

I walked around for a while, but he threw himself back at the gray dog and started crying.

Tom felt that Yuan Feipeng was pushing the child a bit too hard, but after thinking about himself, he was about to speak up when Yuan Feipeng said again, "Did you see this big brother? He was very young, and when he was much younger than you, he lost his parents. He even wandered the streets and almost starved to death, but he still stubbornly survived. Do you want to stay here and reminisce about the happy place of your childhood? Then let's die. Anyway, I will burn and bury my companion's body, along with yours. Your body was fed to the monster, causing it to mutate and harm others."

The boy was still crying, but his voice was much quieter and he did not refute Yuan Feipeng's words.

Yuan Feipeng nodded quietly and then waved to Tom to quickly arrange the retreat.

Tom understands that they must start as soon as possible and leave here.

The dogs in the machinery factory fight back and forth every day, and their strength makes the outside mouse flock wary. Therefore, after Tom and others escaped, those mice only dared to guard outside and did not dare to come in to deliver vegetables.

Now that both dogs are dead, Tom believes that those mice will soon smell the smell of death, and those who stay here will inevitably face another round of attacks.

He asked Zhao Xin to move the engine onto the rear compartment of Car 1, which was their ticket to avoid difficulties. A heavy machine gun was originally installed on the car, but it was dismantled under Kent's command and was originally planned to be used by Tom.

As a result, Tom didn't even have a chance to use a heavy machine gun and ended up in the office on the 7th floor.

At this moment, a big fire broke out in the office on the rooftop, and the fire seemed to be escalating. It was estimated that it would soon spread to the entire building, and it was expected that the mutated spider would end up in a very miserable situation.

Yuan Feipeng was still persuading the young man when Tom saw him talking and took out a camera. He took a photo of the bodies of two dogs, as well as the bodies of vultures and others, and then pulled a smile towards him.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Feipeng still had this skill. With the photos, they would be more convincing when they went back to state the mission. After all, these two mutated dogs are exceptionally fierce. They have not been completely eradicated, and it is already difficult to bring back mission items.

The assault rifles of the vultures and others remained in place, while Zhao Xin was busy collecting these scattered supplies. Tom struggled to get up and, with the help of Yang Caishan, went to the nearby grassland to start digging with a big knife.

The corpse of a villain can mutate even if eaten by ants and other creatures, so if conditions permit, the corpse should be disposed of when a companion dies to prevent it from being eaten by other creatures and causing mutations, thereby increasing the threat out of thin air.

"Tom, you... you're so amazing." Yang Caishan looked at the mud blocks that Tom kept lifting, and her face blushed slightly.

Tom doesn't have time to see her, he must finish his work as soon as possible and prepare to leave.

"I once said, 'If you want to survive, you have to work hard. I was able to survive today because I didn't give up and fought hard.'"

"Hmm." Yang Caishan nodded thoughtfully.

So the atmosphere fell silent again, and Tom put in a few effort to dig up the mud pit before saying, "The next thing is quite disgusting. You'd better go to the car and avoid it."

Yang Caishan nodded again, understanding that Tom's next task was to transport the body over.

The weather in August is still hot and humid, and the bodies of Kent and others are gradually showing signs of decay. Especially vultures and pheasants, their bodies are all fragmented. Tom could only make a homemade shovel, then shove it into the boy's homemade handcart and push it into the freshly dug pit.

There is also a spare fuel tank for the flamethrower in truck number 3, which Tom took out and poured onto three corpses. Yuan Feipeng took two more photos before igniting the fire to prove that they had properly handled the body before igniting it.

The simplest way to deal with small human corpses that have been burned by a large fire is when they cannot be detected by living organisms and cannot be specifically found to eat. This is when it is not possible to bury the corpses.

After burning it, Tom covered the soil back and erected a monument on it with a wooden stick.

Zhao Xin couldn't bear the nausea of the body. If he didn't come to assist Tom, he naturally had to deal with transportation matters.

After covering up the body, Tom still has one more job to do.

The harvest from this trip was quite good. Previously, a dark red crystal was dug out from the mutated black ant body, and the red one was kept in Kent's backpack. The black dog attacked for two days, and surprisingly, these two crystals are still there.

As for the black dog, Tom naturally won't let it go. After cutting open the body of the black dog, taking off his clothes, he crawled inside and quickly dug out two crystals, level five and level two. Let's take it and wash it clean. As expected, the fifth grade is green, and the second grade is yellow.

Control Crystal, the ability to control Black Hair Needle attacks. As an energy storage crystal, yellow crystal seems to appear in secondary mutated organisms.

As for the crystal inside the Greyhound, Tom has not yet taken any action.

But soon, Tom can start work. Because Yuan Feipeng did have two tricks, Tom dug out the crystal of the black dog and not long after, he successfully convinced the boy to go back with them and obtained the boy's consent. He dug open the body of the gray dog and took out the crystal inside.

This is a blue fifth level crystal, and of course there is also a second level yellow crystal, but its ownership still belongs to the young man.

Then we can set off back, and the boy provides a shortcut for how to cross the territory of the mouse.

This is a small hole in the northeast corner of the machinery factory. He used to bring Xiao Hui here to play and found it.

Through that hole, they took a remote path and could return to Industrial Avenue, bypassing the damaged south gate of the Haiwei Mini Industrial Factory. That is the territory ruled by mutated mice, reducing combat conflicts.

This path is still not safe. Along the way, they still encountered a few mice, but they were all ordinary.

The firepower of the assault rifle, combined with the speed of the electric four wheeled vehicle, allowed them to safely cross the threat zone and finally arrived at the security house where they had stopped three days ago before the afternoon.

Compared to Zhenhua Machinery Factory, this security house located next to Industrial Avenue is actually safer and more stable.

At least this place is relatively open, and there are very few threatening creatures appearing nearby.

Tom took them to carefully search the inside of the guard box as usual, and found no other creatures except for two or three flies.

They used assault rifles to kill one fly, scared away the remaining two, and the threat was eventually cleared. They have just set up camp, replenished food and water, set up traps and sleeping boxes, and are preparing to spend the night here.

After finishing all these tasks, Tom finally breathed a sigh of relief and was able to check the mission items that they had obtained at the risk of risking their lives.

This is an engine that everyone recognized at a glance from the beginning, because its appearance is not much different from previous car engines.

There are many of these things in Haiwei Mini Industry.

After the person becomes smaller, the activity radius is greatly reduced, and relying solely on legs to explore is definitely not enough, and transportation is inevitably needed.

Most of the transportation vehicles of Haiwei Mini Industry are powered by electricity because they have obtained the most advanced battery technology internationally, which greatly improves the energy storage capacity and battery life.

However, one of the drawbacks of electric vehicles is that the battery is depleted, making it difficult to replenish it outside. Basically, every vehicle on duty needs to have two or three batteries prepared.

Of course, in addition, the explosive power of the vehicle is also insufficient.

According to Yuan Feipeng's conversation with the young man, it turned out that the owner of this Zhenhua Machinery Factory was already a designer. In addition to making agricultural machinery, he also improved a small engine, greatly enhancing the performance of power output.

Of course, such things are considered unnecessary by many people. Using it as a toy doesn't require such strong power, even in toy racing competitions, it doesn't have much entertainment value in itself. After all, remote-controlled such a small car is a test of operability.

It was actually Shen Liansheng, the deputy general manager of Haiwei Mini Industry, who was interested in his technology. In order to obtain this technology, Shen even proposed to purchase the entire machinery factory. Anyway, this small machinery factory is located next to Haiwei Mini Industry. Acquiring it can make the entire factory area appear more complete.

However, the boss surnamed Fan did not buy it, and he refused Shen Liansheng's several acquisition proposals without hesitation. Even when Yuan Feipeng's high-ranking father personally approached him for a conversation, he didn't give face.